[Fedora-trans-ar] Do we have any Web Developers within?

Maha Helwa ms.helwa at gmail.com
Fri Aug 26 14:52:18 UTC 2005


Ah.. there is other issue.. i forgot to speak about it..
do we have multiple maintainers here.. let me say.. you sherif and munzir 
both of you are maintainers and me and ghoniem are translators.. if me and 
ghoniem translate a string differently that's probably could happen.. then 
munzir did accept my translation and you accept ghoniem's translation.. 
which the final one should be taken? 
Or we shouldn't consider this case right now and let's assume there is only 
one maintainer in the system!

Maha.

On 8/26/05, Maha Helwa <ms.helwa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Sherif..i really want it to reply when i have something to test or start 
> with..lol...
> yeah sure it's going to be a magnificent utility once we finish :)).. and 
> YES yes it's too much for time being because i can't imagine i can do it.. 
> 
> Currently am working on the db..data manipulation and sql statements.. I 
> find a very popular issue...arabic text in the db on mysql am using mySql 
> 4.1.12a..
> The problem now the arabized translation not inserted properly into the 
> table.. and accordingly not retrieved properly to the user.. i did alter the 
> table definition to accept utf-8 on certain column.. but no use.. still 
> there is a problem :)) am going to search more but anyone know about this?!
> 
> Sherif.. wow.. the features you are saying very lovely.. but i have to say 
> is too much to me.. am going to do it but not sure totally about when am 
> going to do it and if i can do it or not.. but I'll give a try.. 
> 
> Anyway.. i hope by the end of next week.. we could have this:
> > have screens on arabic-fedora by which you can retrieve/modify the 
> translation.. for (Guest, Contributor and the maintainer users).
> > Submit your changes and apply them on the db.
> So till i find out how i can populate the data from PO file and take it 
> back from db.. you can use these screens and ur translation will be kept 
> into db not on po files or we can do it manually..LOL the data canl be 
> populated into db manually not by insert statement, but by load statement.. 
> that loads the data from txt file into db table but according to table 
> description; the column orders. Anyway..
> 
> It's looooong way.. not sure am wasting more time that we already need it 
> or it will help in future.. don't know when i can finish but it' will be 
> perfect if we can do it :)
> 
> Anyway sorry for the late reply :)) i should stop blaming everyone :)
> 
> Maha..
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/24/05, sabdelg at redhat.com <sabdelg at redhat.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > Maha,
> > Good start. Here is my comments:
> > 
> > We can have one screen, yet what he/she can do within the screen is 
> > different. 
> > So basically, based on user level (hence, you need to authenticate 
> > users)
> > you can have three access levels:
> > 
> > - Guest, can view browser, editing is not avilable for him.
> > - Contributor, he will be allowed to "edit", and "submit" changes, 
> > mark strings "fuzzy" or remove "fuzzy" marks" .. His entries should
> > be kept in
> > different "proposed" table till a Maintainer "approve" it and move it to
> > "current" 
> > table.
> > 
> > - Maintainer, he will be view current approved, and "proposed" changes, 
> > hence
> > he can "approve" and "merge" or "discard" the new "proposed" change 
> > making it 
> > "current"
> > or send it to "trash"
> > 
> > - System Admin Screen: Maintaince tasks, like populate DB with data
> > from files,
> > backup db, dump DB, restore, ..etc.
> > 
> > Functionality will be allowed to him: 
> > 
> > a. Parse the files on server (that will be on same server your code will 
> > run
> > on),
> > and "insert" these parsed files into the "DB". This will be needed
> > at start
> > time to "take from files into DB", also will be needed if we need a 
> > fresh 
> > copy from the files on disk to DB in case something happened and
> > we need to
> > load files again.
> > 
> > b. Compile or generate "PO" file again from DB and store it to file in 
> > hard
> > disk,
> > or update the hard copy so we can later take this and sync it back to 
> > CVS.
> > 
> > So basically ability per file to load from the copy on the hard, or 
> > generate
> > and compose the file from the DB back to the hard. 
> > 
> > c. Backup DB and Restor DB from SQL files , add users, remove users, 
> > change
> > passwords
> > for users ..etc. Create translation project, define file to maintain, 
> > and
> > locations.
> > 
> > Both Contributor and Maintainer views should be able to ask for "show 
> > all the 
> > file", or "show me fuzzy" only or "show untranslated". Maintainer should 
> > be
> > able to also show "show submited"
> > strings waiting for approval so he can see these strings on one place. 
> > 
> > To do that , you will need in your table to have a flag describe the 
> > state of
> > each
> > string.
> > 
> > And forget about sync`ing with CVS, and CVS commands. As long as it save 
> > files
> > in a file
> > somewhere we can define. Admin can checkout files, use your JAVA to 
> > manipulate 
> > files,
> > then he can check in files manualy later. Or an automated task to do
> > that can be
> > done later.
> > 
> > How does that sound ? Too much, sa7 ? :)) LOL I think it would be the 
> > perfect
> > product that you can sell for anyone afterwords to help them translate 
> > or 
> > contribute in open source ;-)
> > 
> > Sherif
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
>
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